David Boies Quotes

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

The law will argue anything, with anybody who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.

Nobody likes going to court.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

Law is a very addictive profession.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.